Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-03-30
MISSING LINKS.

One of the fancies of Queen Margha-
rita of Italy is a strong preference fol
women physicians.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, Is credit
ed with being the champion checker
player of the South.
Archdeacon Farrar says that 'in
India the English have made one hum
dred drunkards for one Christian"
There is talk of building new state
prison in New York. Sullivan county
is mentioned as suitable location.
The vacaville (Cal.) Judicion says
more leases of fruit ranches have been
made to Cinnamon this year than ever
before.
To make the tailor suit of cloth light
and comfortab the best tailors use
silk for the foundation of the entire
costume.
The ladies should now begin to erect
monuments to distinguished women.
Why should our cities honor only
bronze mcnP
Baron Tennyson's son Hallam re-
fuses to smoke clay pipes as his father
does, and there is GOODNESS between
the two in consequence.
Ellen Terry's favorite dress is white
silk. 'Tis said one of her singular
fancies is to buy any piece of goods
that strikes her fancy for stage dresses
regardless of the material.
A convict employed in the kitchen of
the Montana penitentiary put concen-
trated lye into the coffee which was
served to the prisoners, and they
thought it was an improvement.
King Humbert visited Signor Min
ghetti few hours before his death
and heard almost the last words of the
illustrious statesman. IF / regret to
go, it is because / will no longer be
able to serve my country"
At sale of unclaimed articles at q
Pennsylvania railroad office, one bid
der bought good sewing-machine for
S4.25. A man bought good overcoat
for % cents. One package was found
to be full of baby mittens.
A Cincinnati chimney-sweep pre-
sented bill of $3.50 to citizen every
quarter for five years, and the same
was promptly paid, and it was only the
other day that it was found the sweep
had never swept q chimney.
Little Johnny Blossom of Harrods-
burg, KY, has swallowed Is cents in
pennies and three-cent pieces, and has
suffered no Inconvenience therefrom.
Little Johnny is expected to bloom in
to a great financier, or at least re-
ceiving teller.
Parson Cole, of Lowell, Mass,
drives little nag that won't weigh
over 700 pounds, and which has never
been shod; yet he drove it from Lowell
to Chicago, and back to Richmond,
Me-, and the little fellow showed no
signs of being footsore.
Sergeant S. Prentiss was the ileal
orator of the South. A large and ex-
cellent oil portrait, presented by Judge
Morris of Natchcz, has been hung in
the room of the Supreme Court Of
Louisiana, the fed of most of Mr..
Prentiss' oratorical triumphs.
Finis Cover, Is years old and a
cousin Of Frank and Jesse James. has
been detected in robbing the mails in
Tennessee. As he is under arrest with
strong case against him, justice will
probably write ''Finis' at an early day
upon his career of crime.
Abigail C. Garrett, who has just
been granted a divorce from her hus-
band in Cincinnati. is but twenty-one
years old now, yet she has four chill
dren, and has been married seven
years. Her husband was thirty-five
when he induced the child to marry
him.
The largest natural gas company il
tho Philadelphia Natural Gas Company
which supplies over 400 manufactures
and over 1000 dwellings with the ell
tire amount of fuel consumed. The
total area of pipe Leading into Pitts
bErg is given rs 1.341 .602 square
inches.
Many large establishments in New
York have been driven tn the necessity
Of boring artesian wells, partly from
economy and partly from the gradua
lessening of the supply Of Crotor
water. The water from the well ii
harder than the Croton and flat t.
the taste.
Heathen gentlemen all over th,
world will hear with giee. of the bittel
complaints uttered by phiIanthropist.
in London. The pAiianthropists com
plain that Only E50o,0D0 4 year i
spent on the london hospitals, whil'
- .O00. 900 is voted to send vests K
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